Car dealer arrested for bicycle shooting

A Belize City man has been arrested and charged after a shooting on Tuesday. Thirty-year-old Philip Lightburn, an auto dealer on Cemetery Road, has been charged with attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and grievous harm after twenty-one year old David Williams reported to police that Lightburn shot him. According to Williams, he accidentally bumped into Lightburn with his bicycle on Rhaburn’s Alley around nine p.m. Tuesday night and when the two met about an hour later, they scuffled and then Lightburn shot him in the shoulder. Williams was taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and later released.